I took a break today from lying down (2nd day in a row spent mostly in bed due to migraine + asthma). With Tom’s help I was able to spend a couple of hours doing light – EXTREMELY LIGHT – yard work – planting tulips, trimming back/removing old, damaged, and dead branches, and enjoying the […]
Category: critters
Today in the Garden (Life with Birds – and Squirrels)
Last Wednesday, while we were out looking for a few last-minute grocery items (eggs, cilantro, etc) we stopped by the local Wild Birds Unlimited (a chain of franchise stores, our local one has been around for a very long time). The people there are always so kind and knowledgeable. Tom had been in a couple […]
Wally pics
No need for words, but this is Wally, now settled in and enjoying life with us after four months. He is now four months away from being two!
Wally’s Door
When we last had critters that were not kept in small glass habitats, I was pretty much either a stay-at-home mom, a student, or a substitute teacher with limited days away from home. I knew, when we were rebuilding, that I would eventually want a critter and secretly plotted to have a home that would […]
Yes. A Wally!
(This was supposed to post automatically on March 4, but it was accidentally set for the wrong month…) So: Wally found us a month ago. He is now a full-fledged member of our family. He has some normal routines he looks forward to (breakfast and dinner). We, meanwhile, are looking forward to the installation of […]
WALLY
NaPoWriMo 2015.28
Frogs in the evening sing of cool rains and sunny skies. Memories of tomorrow’s promises. The tadpoles are getting bigger, and respond now when a shadow passes overhead. Naturally more aware, or have they now experienced loss? Do they know fear? Do they know joy, as they rest on the slowly skeletonizing chestnut leaves? Do […]
Today in the Garden
A bee box up on a post in the garden.
Garden Update: Winds of time
Here are a few pictures from around the yard over the last couple of weeks, starting with the 18 or so raspberry plants a friend let us take from her garden!
Past Eleven and STILL Up
Some nights I find it harder to get to sleep than others. Tonight, apparently is one of them.